Community Highlights: Meet Tnah Louise of A Sacred Passage / Attune Frequency Healing

Today we’d like to introduce you to Tnah Louise.

Hi Tnah, so excited to have you on the platform. So before we get into questions about your work-life, maybe you can bring our readers up to speed on your story and how you got to where you are today?
I grew up in Los Angeles and the fashion world. In my early teens, I entered the industry and by the early 1990s became one of the youngest model agents in Los Angeles. Throughout my twenties, I worked as both an agent and director at a well-known modeling agency, represented some of the most renowned hair and make up artists to the stars, and was deeply immersed in a fast-paced and highly competitive environment that shaped my understanding of beauty, discipline, and human vulnerability.

Eventually, at 21 and I stepped away from that world. I retreated to Costa Rica, trading heels and makeup for bare feet and the ocean. It was there, on the Nicoya Peninsula, that I gave birth naturally to my first son, Romeo, on the beach. In the quiet simplicity of that time, something fundamental shifted. I realized I wanted to walk a path rooted in healing and nourishment rather than image and performance.

Creativity remained central to my life, but it took new forms. I found beauty in food and photography, which allowed me to continue creating while raising my four sons, all of whom are now adults. Those early years of motherhood deepened my understanding of care, presence, and responsibility in ways no professional training ever could.

About fourteen years ago, I was invited to photograph a retreat devoted to serving pregnant and postpartum mothers through ancestral and traditional practices. Coming from Mexican and Irish roots, ceremony and ancient ways of honoring life’s transitions were already familiar to me and something I practiced personally. However, witnessing these traditions being intentionally shared and taught within a learning environment awakened something deep within me. The teachings, along with a powerful sense of sisterhood, felt like a remembering rather than a new discovery.

That experience led me to retire fully from fashion and commit myself to postpartum work. I trained as a postpartum doula and began serving mothers through nourishment, traditional mother roasting, ceremonial care, and embodied support — work that centers the mother’s restoration and honors the emotional and physical realities of the postpartum period. This has been deeply purposeful work, as each mother supported influences future generations.

During this time, my path was further shaped by my studies with Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés, one of the world’s most influential Jungian psychoanalysts. Studying with her for five years deepened my understanding of myth, psyche, and the sacred feminine, and further activated my need to do work that was meaningful, soulful, and in service to something larger than myself.

Over time, this work naturally expanded beyond postpartum into holding space for life’s many thresholds. Today, I see my role not as a single title, but as someone who walks alongside others during moments of profound change, offering care, ceremony, and presence when it is needed most. Like the fable Brava Strega Nona by Tomie dePaolo, I have now been called in my community The Good Witch of LA.

I’m sure it wasn’t obstacle-free, but would you say the journey has been fairly smooth so far?
No, it has not been a smooth road but I’ve come to understand that it wasn’t meant to be. One of the most formative studies I undertook was The Way of the Wounded Healer with Maestra Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés. Through that work, I learned that our wounds, when met with consciousness and care, can become tools rather than liabilities.
I often refer to these experiences as “blessons”, lessons shaped by hardship that carry wisdom within them. Much like taking a well-chewed bone and carving it into a tool, lived experience can be transformed into something that serves others. The struggles I’ve faced have given me access to empathy, discernment, and humility, qualities that cannot be learned intellectually.
I’ve experienced loss, transition, and periods of profound personal challenge, but these experiences are not something I live in or repeat as a narrative. I acknowledge them with gratitude. They have given me the capacity to sit with others in difficult moments without fear, judgment, or the need to fix. They’ve taught me how to listen deeply and how to hold space with integrity.
Ultimately, I see my challenges not as obstacles to my work, but as part of the training that allows me to show up for others with authenticity and compassion.

Thanks for sharing that. So, maybe next you can tell us a bit more about your business?
My work lives at the intersection of care, ceremony, and embodiment. Through my practice, I support people during life’s most meaningful transitions like birth, postpartum, grief, death, and major rites of passage, using nourishment, ritual, sound, and presence.

While my foundation is in traditional postpartum care, my work has expanded over time to serve people across all stages of life. I am especially known for my postpartum work, including traditional mother roasting, ceremony such as Mother Blessingways and Closing of The Bone Ceremonies, to nourishment, and hands-on care that centers the mother’s restoration rather than rushing her recovery. This work draws from ancestral practices, embodied experience, and years of serving families in deeply intimate moments. It is not transactional care, it is relational, slow, and reverent.

Alongside this, I offer Attune Frequency Healing, a sound- and frequency-based bodywork practice open to all ages, including children, adults, and elders. This work focuses on nervous system regulation, embodiment, and restoring balance through sound, vibration, and guided presence. It allows me to work beyond postpartum care and support a wider community in ways that are gentle, accessible, and deeply attuned to the body.

What sets my work apart is that I do not separate the physical, emotional, and spiritual aspects of healing. Whether I am supporting a postpartum mother, walking with someone through grief, facilitating a rite of passage, or offering frequency-based bodywork, my approach is rooted in deep listening, integrity, and honoring the body’s innate wisdom.

I also serve as an officiant and ceremonialist, creating inclusive rites of passage for people who may not identify with organized religion but still feel a profound need to mark life’s transitions with meaning and dignity.

Brand-wise, what I am most proud of is integrity. My work has grown organically over many years, shaped by lived experience rather than trends. I source thoughtfully, work slowly, and prioritize presence over scale. Every offering, whether a one-on-one session, a ceremony, or a seasonal gathering, is created with care, intention, and respect for the people I serve.

What I want readers to know is that my work is about remembering something essential: that no one should move through major life changes alone. In a world that often rushes or overlooks these moments, my role is to create spaces where people are witnessed, supported, and honored, where healing is not forced, but allowed to unfold.

Networking and finding a mentor can have such a positive impact on one’s life and career. Any advice?
I’m often asked — through Instagram or email, whether someone can shadow me or learn alongside my work. Mentorship has been an important part of my life, both as a student and as a guide. At this stage, at 54, I’ve had the privilege of mentoring a young woman who worked with me from the age of 12 through 20 as my assistant, and that experience reaffirmed how powerful long-term, relational mentorship can be.
My advice is to not be shy about reaching out. If someone gives you what I call a “heart hit”- that felt sense of recognition or resonance, trust it and make contact. Approach with respect, curiosity, and humility, not entitlement. Most meaningful mentorships grow organically, through shared values and genuine connection rather than transactional asks.
Networking, to me, isn’t about collecting contacts. It’s about building relationships. Especially in this moment in history, I believe it’s essential for women to lift one another up. There is enough creativity, opportunity, and success to go around. When we lead with generosity rather than competition, community forms naturally, and mentorship becomes a shared exchange rather than a hierarchy.

Pricing:

• ATTUNE FREQUENCY HEALING $250-$350
• BENGKUNG BELLY BINDING $300
• PLACENTA ENCAPSULATION $400
• NOURISHING FOOD ( VARIES)
• SACRED MENARCHE MENTOR ONLINE PROGRAM $125

Contact Info:

• Website: https://WWW.ASACREDPASSAGE.COM
• Instagram: A SACRED PASSAGE / GOODWITCHOFLA. / ATTUNE
• Facebook: A SACRED PASSAGE
• Yelp: A SACRED PASSAGE

Image Credits
ALL IMAGES PROVIDED EXCEPT THE PERSONAL IMAGE ARE CREDITED TO TNAH LOUISE

PERSONAL PHOTO BY TONY DURAN